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Bryan N. Smith

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Bryan N. Smith is a creative thinker who is passionate about exploring the world of faith and the life of the mind. He is the author of Faith Seeking Belief and a former Chapter Director for both the New Canaan Society as well as Reasonable Faith. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Houston Christian University, and briefly pursued a Ph.D. in Humanities from Faulkner University before leaving to pursue further study through the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University. He and his family reside near Dallas, TX.

Questioning the Unquestionable

For most of my life, even asking whether the Bible was “God-given” would have felt borderline scandalous. Not heretical exactly, but close enough to make people shift uncomfortably in their seats. It simply wasn’t a real question. Asking it felt like inching toward the edge of a cliff, where even the simple act of looking down might cause you to fall. Bible 101 assumed it. Sunday School implied it

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“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

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